Slide loop



Feb. 5, N46. e. H. ELWELL SLIDE LOOP Filed Feb. 8, 1944 iNV TOR.

Patented Feb. 5, 1946 2,394,159 I C E SLIDE LOOP George Henry Elwell, New Haven, Conn, assignor to Eastern Tool and Manufacturing Company, Bloomfield, N. 5., a corporation Application February 8, 1944, Serial No. 521,547

2 Claims.

This invention relates to slide loops, the physical combination of a slide and a button loop.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple one-piece structure adapted to be permanently mounted upon the upper bar of a strap 100p oi an ordinary button loop thereby converted for use as a slide loop.

A further object is to provide an improvement upon an invention of Carl E. Anderson and George Henry Elwell, Number 2,248,918, issued July 15, 1941.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, the Figure 1 is an upright face view of the slide loop; Figure 2 is a similar view, but illustrating the hinged member positioned in a plane transverse to that of the button loop; Figure 3 is a crosssectional view of the slide loop on the line 3--3 of the Figure-1; and Figure 4 is a detail illustrating the hinged member.

With more particular reference to the accompanying drawing, the numeral I designates the button loop member of wire formation having in its upper position the rectangular strap-passage 2, defined by the upper bar 3, side bars 4 depending therefrom and bent inwardly to provide spaced aligned lower bar sections IA from each of which bar sections IA there is integrally dependinga laterally resilient arm I B they together providing a button-receiving 100p IC and a button-retaining loop ID having a contracted throat portion IE therebetween, such button 100p being ordinarily suspended from a looped strap passed around the upper bar 3, and its lower portion clipped over a button carried by a garment to be thereby supported.

The member 5, which converts the button loop into a slide loop, comprises a one-piece sheetstock structure having in a flat plane the top bar 6 and strap passage 1, the rolled base 8, as best illustrated by the Figure 4, provides an internal bearing for engagement upon the therein enclosed wire bar 3 of the button loop membe I for a hinged movement thereon. Th rolled base 8 is provided With a series of teeth 9, each tooth extending outwardly therefrom in a downwardly divergent plane from that of the top bar 6 and strap passage 7. At one end of the rolled base 8 an edge of the base is provided with a detent depression I adapted for engagement with a wire side ba 4 of the button loop member to maintain the wire and sheetstock members I and substantially in a common plane.

For use, in mounting the slide loop upon a strap S the members I and 5 may be made to assume such relative positions as will superpose the strap passages 2 and I so that a strap end can be inserted within both passages at one and the same time, or the two passages 2 and 1 may be threaded while relatively erect in the ordinary manner, the

result of either method of threading being illus- 6 trated by the Figure 3 wherein the inserted strap is entered, as it were, within the sheet-stock passage i from the rear of the slide loop, passed over the rolled base 8 and series of teeth 9 and within the wire strap passage 2 from the front and allowed to emain suspended at the rear of the slide loop. In the relatively erect positions of the members i and 5 the detent depression ii! registers with one of the side bars 4 to maintain the associated members I and 5 substantially in a common plane. All pulling stress upon the wire button loop! will tend to increase the grip of the teeth 9 upon an inserted strap.

I claim:

1. A two-part slide loop for a strap, the slide loop comprising a wire membe of which the wire is formed to provide a rectangular strap loop having upper and lower bar structures integrally connected by the side bars, and a pair of side arms of a button loop integrally depending from the lower ba structures, said side bars, lower bar structures and side arms being resilient; a sheetstock member having a rectangular strap loop opening therethrough and a hinged connection with the wire members upper bar structure; an intermediate bar provided by the hinged covered wire upper bar, the intermediate bar separating the wire and sheet-stock strap loops positioned in a common plane; and locking means provided by an arcuate depression at an end of the hinged portion of the sheet-stock member in engagement With one of said resilient wire side bars; whereby a strap may be inserted from the rear of the device within the sheet-stock strap loop, over said hinged-covered intermediate bar and, from the front of the device, inserted within said wire strap loop.

2. A two-part slide loop for a strap, the slide loop comprising a wire member providing an upper bar of which the extremities are formed at right angles thereto to provide parallel resilient side bars for a rectangula strap loop of which the lower bar structure of spaced aligned sections and a pair of resilient arms depend therefrom to provide a button loop portion of said member; a sheet-stock member having a rectangular strap loop opening therethrough and an elongated hinged connection with the wire upper bar for,

an open locked position in an extended plane of the wire member, the hinged-covered wire upper bar providing an intermediate bar for the pair of wire and sheet-stock strap loops in a common plane; means, independent of an inserted strap, to maintain said locked position, said means comprising a recessed arcuate detent carried by, and

at an end of, the elongated hinged portion of the sheet-stock member for engagement with one of said resilient side bars; and a series of teeth carried by the elongated hinge for engagement with a strap lying thereover in its threaded position within said pair of strap loops.

GEORGE HENRY ELWELL. 

